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Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Allowed to be mysterious




Better neighboorhoods are like that Tolstoy quote
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Not that scrappy developments are unhappy, I just mean that they are not all groomed to a bland consensus. Quirky things happen.

I came upon this enigmatic structure by the curb. It is not at all cute. It's brutal. All the elements of a building, but why? Was it a fortress for a psychotic guinea pig? A Tower of London for a deposed chihuahua? Are those windows for defense? or for seeing a small patch of... car tires? It even has a moat!

Some things are best left unanswered and mysterious.

1 comment:

Susan Gallacher-Turner said...

Very mysterious. It makes me curious about it. It looks like the inside is very small compared to the outside, but perhaps, not? Where did you see this? I would love to see this???
Susan